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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

But we’re having an important conference, aren’t we? Please let me stay a little longer. I

[Taking him by the arm]

Now, now. Someone is waiting for you outside the door. No fooling, old fellow, or

Yes, yes—I—I—I’ll come right away.

Your servant, gentlemen.

[He goes out]

Gregor, did you mean what you just said?

I did.

[Coming out of bedroom]

Talk quietly. She ought to sleep.

Kristina, come here. Would you like to live for three hundred years?

No.

And if you had the secret for such a long life, what would you do with it?